Photo credit: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters. In late April 2019, the Supreme Court heard oral argument for the Department of Commerce v. New York, 139 S.Ct. 1316 (2019), a case which asks whether the Secretary of Commerce’s decision to add a question to the Decennial...

This year, a record number of Americans voted in the midterm elections, marking it the highest turnout rate for a midterm election since 1966. Still, there is more to be done to better ensure higher participation from the electorate. Democrats have announced that the...

In June of 2013, Shelby County, Ala. v. Holder held Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to be unconstitutional. Section 4(b) outlined the circumstances under which a state would be subject to preclearance under Section 4(a) of the Act. As reauthorized in...

Amendment A: Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution that prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime and thereby prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude in all circumstances? On November 6th, 2018—153 years since the...

Our criminal justice system acts punitively long after the sentence ends. Most notably, harsh laws continue to punish those convicted of sex offenses throughout their lives. Banished, a recent piece from the Marshall Project, describes the literal ostracism of those...

When casting their ballots for the midterm elections, Florida voters will have the opportunity to help restore the eligibility to vote to previously incarcerated individuals with felony convictions through a constitutional amendment. For the enactment of a proposed...

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We are now accepting submissions for Volume 55, Issue 2 of our journal. We invite you to submit any of your manuscripts that relate to the broad umbrella of civil rights and civil liberties through August 30.

Do you have any radical legal scholarship about building a better, fairer legal system/world? The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review is currently accepting submissions till Aug. 30, and we want to publish you! Articles should be < 30K words. https://t.co/DFj10kxQEJ

The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review is now accepting submissions for Volume 55, Issue 2 of our journal. We would like to invite you to submit any of your manuscripts that relate to the broad umbrella of civil rights and civil liberties.